Thread:Endebros/@comment-31486859-20171214053215/@comment-31398341-20171214151249

Just saw this, I will answer as a former active player in Smogon, now occasionally.

Evasion clause, Sleep clause and OHKO Clause are the best thing Smogon offers tbh. Without these, as Ende said, it leads to unskilled playing. (Example : Minimize Clefable, Chansey, Mind Reader + Sheer Cold Articuno, etc.)

Bans are not happened abruptly. They only ban things after the Pokemon has been proven unhealthy to the game. Mega Salamence can DDance and sweep almost every time for 2 weeks before banned, Aegislash was super centralizing for 4 days before the ban, Pheromosa made the tier broken for a month before the ban finalized, and Mega Gengar trapped and killed everything it wants for one week.

I used to disagree with the bans, but they always brought up a good point, such as statistics, calculations, replays, etc. Nothing is wrong with Smogon in gameplay. They tried to make the game as healthy as possible.